Ignoring the connection with higher IQ/income - ignorance or lack of understanding
of the world should make one happier in some instances._________________Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood"

Ignoring the connection with higher IQ/income - ignorance or lack of understanding
of the world should make one happier in some instances.

I thought the same._________________There is, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. If that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded. - Gautama Siddharta

I wonder if this question were asked here, how many would reply as being "very happy."

I wouldn't and I consider myself of above average intelligence._________________we are microsoft, lower your firewalls and surrender your pc's. we will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. your culture will adapt and service us. resistance is futile.

My bet would be that people of extremely high intelligence also tend to be less happy. Anything that makes somebody less capable of gaining social acceptance and building supportive relationships would tend to make someone less happy. Exceptionally intelligent people also tend to be the ones who have existential crises (i.e., "what is my purpose"), whereas people of average intelligence tend to just happily spin whatever hamster wheel they have landed on.

Can you feel it Mr. Anderson? Closing in on you? Oh I can, I really should thank you after all. It was, after all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end.

My bet would be that people of extremely high intelligence also tend to be less happy. Anything that makes somebody less capable of gaining social acceptance and building supportive relationships would tend to make someone less happy. Exceptionally intelligent people also tend to be the ones who have existential crises (i.e., "what is my purpose"), whereas people of average intelligence tend to just happily spin whatever hamster wheel they have landed on.

My bet would be that people of extremely high intelligence also tend to be less happy. Anything that makes somebody less capable of gaining social acceptance and building supportive relationships would tend to make someone less happy. Exceptionally intelligent people also tend to be the ones who have existential crises (i.e., "what is my purpose"), whereas people of average intelligence tend to just happily spin whatever hamster wheel they have landed on.

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Absolutely completely agree. I wouldn't call myself a person with an exceptionally high IQ (all tests ive ever done put me between 130-140), but the "what is my purpose" question comes to my mind a lot, and I can see how it can get worse with people with even higher IQ._________________There is, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. If that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded. - Gautama Siddharta

My bet would be that people of extremely high intelligence also tend to be less happy. Anything that makes somebody less capable of gaining social acceptance and building supportive relationships would tend to make someone less happy. Exceptionally intelligent people also tend to be the ones who have existential crises (i.e., "what is my purpose"), whereas people of average intelligence tend to just happily spin whatever hamster wheel they have landed on.

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Absolutely completely agree. I wouldn't call myself a person with an exceptionally high IQ (all tests ive ever done put me between 130-140), but the "what is my purpose" question comes to my mind a lot, and I can see how it can get worse with people with even higher IQ.

yeh, I've heard that from a lot of "high IQ" people too. But it's actually pretty easy, if potentially sinister:

there is no purpose. your "mind" is a random fluke of the universe.

it's actually quite soothing once you nailed that part. guess the Buddhists and Taoists were up to something after all. it's a shame a lot of really smart people have trouble accepting that. some even go bonkers cause they can't._________________"Confident, lazy, cocky, dead." -- Felix Jongleur, Otherland